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dull-brown head, and body with crimson dorsal line and spots. Hibernation appa- 

 rently in the imago. 



This is probably a synonym of luciferella Clemens, described from New York 

 and Pennsylvania, in June. 



Southern Ohio. 



2. P. argentimaculella Murtfeldt. Shining dark brown, with a good many of 

 the scales toward apex finely white-barred; a broad lead gray antemedial fascia 

 across middle of cell, with a large blackish tuft in fold beyond it; a strongly 

 irregular postmedial fascia, sometimes Y-shaped, or with a separate costal spot 

 before it, and sometimes broken in middle, with a large tuft beyond it on inner 

 margin; with a small yellow area before it, or in the fork, if it is forked; a nar- 

 rower strongly irregular subterminal band, produced out at middle. Fringe 

 white-tipped. 7 mm. 



End of August; December (forced?). Caterpillar a leaf-miner of (Enothera, in 

 August and October; mine a winding tract, often recrossing itself and sometimes 

 becoming confluent into a blotch, with scattered frass; larva pale green with three 

 indistinct pink dorsal stripes. Pupa in a dense white cocoon, usually outside the 

 mine in a wrinkle of the leaf. 



St. Louis, Missouri. 



3. P. terminella Westwood, race engelella Busck. Deep bronzy brown; palpi 

 pale powderv .sray; antenna? with a white band before apex. Fore wing bronzy on 

 basal fourth, the rest bright yellow (metallic and changing from green -gold to 

 copper), shading into dark brown at apex. An oblique silvery fascia at base, 

 curving out to meet the antemedial fascia, one at a fourth way out below fold, 

 and an equally long one at three-fourths way out; two large black tufts on dorsal 

 half of wing, just beyond the two fascia?, with a silver dash between them; a white 

 costal dot before apex. Orbicular silver, slightly raised. Base of dorsal fringe 

 lead gray. 8 mm. 



May; June. Larva (Europe) whitish with yellow-brown head, in a greenish 

 blotch mine on Circcea lutetiwna. 



Connecticut to District of Columbia and western Pennsylvania. New York: 

 Rock City ( Cattaraugus County ) , Hemlock Lake, McLean. 



7. PYRODERCES Zeller 

 (Batrachcdrii, hi part) 



Pecten strong, scape short; fore wing narrow-lanceolate and subfalcate; R 4 to M., 

 stalked, R 5 and Mj farthest; M 3 , Cu„ and Cu 2 parallel and equal; 1st A free, 2d A 

 forked at base. Hind wing half as wide as fore wing, with concave costa and some- 

 what weakened veins; R and M, long-stalked; M 2 somewhat approximate to them. 

 Caterpillars various. Palpi with second segment somewhat roughened, third a 

 little longer. 



1. P. rileyi Walsingham. Bright yellow-brown, palpus with third segment pale 

 with three black rings. Fore wing with irregular and incomplete black bands at 

 one-fourth and one-half way to apex, typically followed by luteous, and with a 

 similar rudimentary mark on the costa before the first band, sometimes joined to 

 it. Terminal region with two pale patches, each followed by a black one running 

 out toward apex. A couple of black bars in fringe. Markings sometimes more 

 obscure, the luteous being masked by a powdery extension of the black. Black 

 powdering rarely gathering in a broken longitudinal streak. 



Larva feeding in mummy fruits of loquat, rotten cotton bolls, stored corn, etc. 



District of Columbia to Arkansas and south; common in the tropics. 



